CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.“The Sea! the Open Sea!”[1]
II. Salt Water[10]
III. Earth’s Vast Ocean[19]
IV.Subject to Law[27]
V.In Ocean Depths[37]
VI.Rivers in the Sea[50]
VII.Of Wind and Water[61]
VIII.An Ocean of Azure[70]
IX.Ice-Needles to Ice-Mountains[79]
X.Receiving—to Give Again[89]
XI.A Story of Conflict[102]
XII.About the Long Past[110]
XIII.Old Ocean as a Builder[122]
XIV.How Chalk is Made[135]
XV.Of Ocean-weeds[149]
XVI.Coral Architects[163]
XVII.Over the Ocean-bed[176]
XVIII.Multitudinous Life[185]
XIX.Ocean Flowers and Lamps[196]
XX.Armoured Myriads and Monsters[207]
XXI.A Goodly Company of Crabs[220]
XXII.The World of Fishes[230]
XXIII.Some Oddities of Fish-life[241]
XXIV.Behemoths of the Ocean[252]
XXV.“Down to the Sea in Ships”[261]
XXVI.An Empire: Ocean-wide [276]